Laurens Village, NY
Lead detected, under the action levels
Latest 90th-percentile lead: 5 ppb (monitoring period 2024-2026). The federal action level is 15 ppb today and drops to 10 ppb in Nov 2027; EPA's health goal is 0. Lead was measured in sampled homes but the 90th percentile is under both action levels. EPA's health goal for lead is zero, so test your own tap if your home was built before 1986 or anyone in it is pregnant or a young child.
Who runs the water here
Laurens Village serves about 381 people through 130 service connections, which makes it a very small system under EPA's size classes. It is owned by a local government (city, town, county or district) and draws groundwater, in Otsego County, New York. EPA system ID: NY3800151; phone on file: 607-441-5431. Ask them for your address in their service line inventory - every system had to publish one by Oct 2024.
Laurens Village's lead record
That is up 5 ppb from 0 ppb in the period ending 2023. The highest 90th-percentile result EPA holds for Laurens Village is 11.2 ppb across 6 monitoring periods, none of them over 15 ppb (1 over 10 ppb).
| Period ending | 90th-percentile lead |
|---|---|
| 2026 | 5 ppb |
| 2023 | 0 (not detected) |
| 2023 | 1.3 ppb |
| 2022 | 9.65 ppb |
| 2019 | 4.1 ppb |
| 2016 | 11.2 ppb over 10 |
Against other New York systems
Of the 2,077 New York systems with a lead result, the median latest reading is 1.5 ppb; 17 are over 15 ppb right now and 165 have gone over at some point. Laurens Village's 5 ppb sits at the 86th percentile in New York and the 91st nationally (higher means more lead).
Neighbouring systems
35 other systems share Otsego County; 3 of them have a higher latest lead result than Laurens Village. If you are unsure which one supplies your house, the name on your water bill decides it.
| System | People | Latest lead |
|---|---|---|
| Oneonta City | 15,954 | 6 ppb |
| Cooperstown Village | 1,926 | 0 (not detected) |
| Richfield Springs Village | 1,200 | 3 ppb |
| Unadilla Village | 1,128 | 3.5 ppb |
| Otego Village | 1,010 | 1.3 ppb |
| Edmeston Water District | 890 | 0 (not detected) |
| Worcester Wd #2 - Worcester | 656 | 0.8 ppb |
| Morris Village | 652 | 0 (not detected) |
| Cherry Valley Village | 620 | 3.7 ppb |
| Maryland Water District | 524 | 0 (not detected) |
Next steps for Laurens, NY
Test your own tap with a certified lab first-draw sample; Laurens, NY may offer free or low-cost kits through the utility. If your own line is lead, replacing the private side runs about $1,200-$12,300 (EPA average about $4,700). Ask Laurens Village whether it covers that cost before hiring anyone - many utilities now do. Its latest copper 90th percentile is 1595 ppb (copper action level 1,300 ppb).
These figures describe homes the utility sampled, not your tap. Only your service line record or a test of your own water answers the question for your house. What a 90th-percentile result does and does not tell you: how to read a lead result. Systems that went over once often dip back under; here is what that means.